Kabul | Monday AFGHAN officials were confident on Sunday of capturing the elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, as US bombers pounded hills near the eastern city of Jalalabad in a bid to wipe out al-Qaeda stragglers. US forces questioned Abdul Salam Zaeef, the toppled Taliban regime’s former ambassador to Pakistan, for information on Taliban […]
THE United States has deployed a special air force plane to deliver mail to its embassies in Africa following a threat from mail containing anthrax, aviation sources said in Kampala on Sunday. Sources at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport said that a C-141 transport plane has been flying into the airport to deliver and pick-up diplomatic bags […]
THIRTY truck loads of food, medicines and blankets donated by Libya left Quetta in Pakistan after dark on Saturday for the devastated Taliban stronghold of Kandahar” This is for the refugees not the Taliban,” said Mohamad Ismail, a director of the Tripoli-based Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Association, run by the Libyan leader’s son, Saif […]
MARK RICE-OXLEY, London | Monday MOST Britons are resigned to joining the single European currency even though they oppose euro membership, according to surveys published on Sunday gauging reaction to last week’s launch of euro notes and coins. The polls gave an impression of a still-eurosceptic public that now fears the increasingly europhile government will […]
Melawa, Afghanistan | Tuesday FIGHTERS loyal to Osama bin Laden around Tora Bora mountain in eastern Afghanistan agreed on Tuesday to surrender to militia forces, a local commander said. Haji Mohammad Zaman, one of the three leaders of local groups hostile to bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, told journalists of the surrender following several hours of […]
Tora Bora | Wednesday US BOMBERS were back in action in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday after besieged al-Qaeda forces failed to meet a surrender-or-die deadline and put forth conditions to lay down their arms. A US B-52 carried out two raids from 8:50 am (0420 GMT) – 50 minutes after the deadline […]
Kabul | Tuesday AFGHAN militia forces claimed to have made significant gains against Osama bin Laden’s embattled forces in the Tora Bora region of the country on Monday, as US Marines fanned out from their base near Kandahar to cut off the escape routes of fleeing al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Local commanders laying siege to […]
MORE than 150 people were left homeless after a rainstorm in the small village of Frankfort near King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape on Sunday afternoon. e.tv news reported on Monday night that the storm lasted for half an hour, destroying 16 houses and leaving others with severe structural damage. Destitute residents were being […]
Islamabad | Tuesday THE World Bank has estimated that $15-billion will be needed over the next 10 years for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, a report said on Tuesday. Acting head of the World Bank, Abid Hassan, told a conference in Islamabad on Monday that health, agriculture and education sectors were the most important investment areas. […]
POLICE at Kranskop in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands are looking for a 36-year-old man who allegedly raped his 72-year-old grandmother last week, policeman Captain Zethembe Chonco said on Monday. Chonco said the man was also on bail for another rape that allegedly occurred in Durban last year. His grandmother was at home and in bed around […]